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UNITED F STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMESF. BEAN, OF MARTINEZ, CALIFORNIA.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 539,787, dated May 28,1895. Application filed June 19, 1 894- Serial No. 515,005. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JAMES F. BEAN, a citizenof the United States, residing at Martinez, in the county of ContraCosta and State of California, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Gates; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of said invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it most nearly appertains tomake, use, and practice the same.

The present invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inswinging gates, which consists in the arrangement of parts and detailsof construction. as will be hereinafter more fully set forth in thedrawings, described and pointed out in the specification.

The object of my invention is to relieve the gate post of lateral strainthereon when the gatestands open and at the same time provide a gatewhich shall be equally counterpoised when opened, wherebythe same may beswung to and fro with the slightest pressure.

In order to more thoroughly understand my invention reference must behad to the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a View inelevation showing the gate closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing theposition of the gate when rolled or moved inward upon the hingedsection. Fig. 3 is a 'top plan view of the gate when opened; and

Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the gate, taken on line X X, Fig. l.

My invention consists in a sliding section or frame and a hinged andswinging section through which the sliding section works, said sectionmoving or sliding upon friction rolls located within the hinged orswinging section.

In the drawings the numeral 1, indicates an ordinary gate post, to whichthe swinging section is hinged, and 2, the opposite gate post with whichthe gate moves into locked en gagement when the gate is closed.

The swinging section of the gate consists of a triangular frame, whichconsists of the upright 3, and the brace bars 4 and 5 which are mortisedto the upright 3, at each end thereof, and run at an angle thereto untiltheir ends meet, when they are secured to the short upright 6. Thistriangular brace or support frame of the gate is in length equal toabout one-half the length of the gate proper.

To the gate post 1, are secured the pintles .7 and 8 to which theswinging frame is secured by eyelets 9, which fit over the pintles andby means of which said section is hingedto the gate post 1.

The slide section of the gate is composed of the parallel longitudinalbars or rails 10, 11,

groove 21.

The slide section is secured to the swinging section by the railsthereof fitting within the grooves or channels cut within the uprights 3and 6. After being fitted to the swinging section the slide section isheld in place by means of the face strips 22 and 23, which aresecured'to the outer face of the vertical uprights, the bars or rails ofthe .slide section being located within the channels cut within thevertical uprights, consequently between the outer face of said uprightsand the inner face'of the face strips.

The face strips are connected to the uprights by means of the bolts 24.These bolts preferably, hold the bearing rolls 25, 26 and 27 in place.Roll 25 is located within groove or channel 17 and upon the same bearsrail or bar 10. Within channel or groove 20 is secured roll 26, uponwhich bears bar or rail 14; while roll 27 is secured within the channelcut in the outer face of upright 6, and upon the same bears rail or bar12. These rolls receive the weight of the slide section and permit thesame to be moved inoront with least possible friction.

.To the slide section I have shown the ordinary catch bar28 secured,which engages with 93 staple 29 fastened within gate post 2. However,any style of catch may be used, the same forming no part of myinvention.

By means of my triangular swinging frame the slide section is preventedfrom dragging IOO when the gate is unlocked'or said section is beingmoved, and by the rollers, upon which said section bears, the slidesection may be moved in or out by the slightest pressure, in fact by amere child.

In order to open the gate it is only necessary to slide the movablesection until the vertical end piece a, meets the front edge of upright6. The section will then have moved just about one-half its length andthe gate will be balanced. When in this position the gate may easily beopened its full width by very little power and the same will swingfreely, for the gate being balanced, the hinged section will readilyswing to or fro.

By this manner of constructing a gate, the excessive lateral strain,when the gate stands open, is removed from the gate post, for the gatebeing balanced when open, the weight is equally distributed to each sideof the gate post. Consequently the post and adjoining portion of fenceis not loosened.

The triangular swinging frame not only answers to swing the gate to orfro, but serves to maintain the gate or sliding frame in perfect lineand prevent its sagging at its free end when partially opened.

In forming the rollers 25, 26, and 27, I preferably make them of adiameter less than the width of the upright 3, and end piece 6, andmount the same directly in the center.

this means the rollers are held from contact with vertical portions ofthe movable gate. This I regard as an important feature for the reasonthat should the gate be violently forced back or forward the impactbetween the same and its support would be received by the uprights 3 and6, whereas were the rollers of sufficient diameter to project beyond theparts 3 and 6 the shafts thereof would be driven from their bearings andthe rollers otherwise injured by the impact.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming broadly a sliding gateworking upon rollers, nor simply a swinging gate, for such I know to beold and in common use, but

What I do claim as new, and desire to secure protection in by LettersPatent, is

A gate comprising a fixed supporting post, an upright hinged theretohaving a notched inner edge, oppositely inclined braces 4 and 5 rigidlysecured at opposite ends ofthe upright and united at their outer ends, anotched upright 6 fixedly secured on the sides of the outer ends of thebraces, the slidable gate having its longitudinal bars passing throughthe notches in the uprights, rollers 25, 26 and 27 mounted in theopposite ends of the hinged upright and in the upright 6 and of adiameter less than the width of the uprights, and

'the cleat secured to the hinged upright spanning the notches therein,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES F. BEAN. Witnesses:

WM. S. WELLS, G. E. CARTER.

